Infant Toddler Teacher Dry Tavern

Blueprints•Rices Landing, PA

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About The Position

Blueprints is seeking an Infant Toddler Teacher who is directly responsible for supervising children and managing the classroom. The teacher promotes children’s active exploration, creativity, and development across all domains by designing indoor and outdoor environments based on knowledge of child development, learning, and individual abilities. The role includes planning and delivering developmentally appropriate learning experiences, monitoring and documenting children’s progress, and working collaboratively with families, classroom staff, and specialists. The teacher also supports family engagement, outreach and enrollment, children’s health needs, transitions between early childhood settings, and connections to community services. Regular and reliable attendance is essential.

Requirements

A minimum of a Child Development Associate (CDA) credential.
Training or equivalent coursework in early childhood development, with a focus on infant and toddler development.
Regular and reliable attendance.

Nice To Haves

An associate degree from an accredited college or university in Early Childhood Education or a related field.

Responsibilities

Supervise children and manage the classroom.
Keep abreast of current research and best practices in education, family, health, and disability services, and apply relevant information to the work.
Seek feedback, reflect on and assess practice, and pursue opportunities to improve skills and knowledge.
Participate in required meetings and training, which may involve out-of-town travel.
Incorporate early learning standards and guidelines into teaching practice.
Collaborate with classroom staff in planning, decision-making, and problem-solving.
Monitor children’s progress toward goals, including IFSP goals, by observing and documenting play, conversations, routines, schedules, and work samples, and by communicating with families.
Set learning goals and plan experiences informed by each child’s temperament, interests, gender, culture, language, learning approaches, understanding, misconceptions, and abilities, in collaboration with families and specialists.
Use information gathered through home visits, parent-teacher conferences, and other family interactions in daily routines and interactions with children.
Support development across all domains through the curriculum, environment, daily activities, and community opportunities such as field trips and classroom volunteers.
Work with classroom staff to design indoor and outdoor environments that encourage exploration, creativity, and development.
Coordinate with center staff and specialists to prepare for home visits and other family contacts and promote consistent sharing of child information with families.
Ensure volunteers and parents understand the curriculum and developmentally appropriate practices.
Support outreach and enrollment by recruiting pregnant women, age-eligible children, and families, and communicating program eligibility, selection, and enrollment policies.
Engage families as partners in their own and their children’s development and learning, including helping them build on strengths and develop achievable short- and long-term goals.
Support transition planning to or from Early Head Start, Head Start, home, or another early childhood placement.
Track and monitor children’s physical, dental, and health-related needs.
Help identify needed community services and connect families to those services.
Foster parental engagement in program activities, including parent committees, policy council, advisory committees, and male involvement.
Obtain and report Non-Federal In-Kind.